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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Paintingfront

© Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

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  • Description

    This is the third of five volumes from a Republican era (1911-1949) edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular page opening illustrates the artists’ Mi Youren (1074-1151) and Ni Zan’s (1301-1374) method for painting mountains. Mi Youren (1074-1151) was the son of one of the most acclaimed scholar painters of the Song dynasty (AD 960-1279), while Ni Zan (1301-1374) is known as one of the Four Yuan (dynasty) masters. The text on the right-hand page comments on the stylistic consistency between Mi father and son, and so emphasises the role of reproducing iconic standards from previous generations.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (probable place of publication)
    Date
    1911 - 1949
    Artist/maker
    after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
    Associated people
    Mi Youren (1074 - 1151) (named on object)
    Ni Zan (1301 - 1374) (named on object)
    Material and technique
    lithograph; bound
    Dimensions
    closed 28.4 x 17.4 x 1.3 cm (height x width x depth)
    double page 28.2 x 30.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › planographic print › lithograph,
    bound
    Object type index
    visual representation › print,
    communications equipment › book
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
    Accession no.
    LI2009.11

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 89 on p. 172, pp. 118, 151, illus. p. 173 fig. 89

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